MW3 DLC ideas to enhance Survival Mode

A weekend of bad weather and new-year’s resolutions resulted in me staying at home for most of the weekend, therefore as I am a massive fan of Call of Duty Zombie mode I thought it was about time that I gave MW3’s Survival Mode a good try out. After dozens of hours of gameplay I have to admit that I am growing very fond of this horde mode, but I do think that DLC and updates could make it even greater – today I will share my ideas with you.

Perhaps the most obvious way to improve survival mode would be to add new maps, we are impressed by the fact that there are already 16 maps available, however we think its pretty much set-in-stone that more maps will arrive and we welcome them. Perhaps Infinity Ward will bring some classic maps from previous Modern Warfare games to survival mode, if so we think that Favela, Highrise, Invasion, Karachi, and Wasteland would all be great – what previous CoD maps would you like to see?

Adding maps is one way to diversify survival mode, but there’s a much simpler way which could come via a minor title update. At the moment maps are split into four tiers, Tier 1 consists of four maps which are set to ‘Easy’ in terms of difficulty, Tier 2 is unlocked at level 8 and the four maps in this Tier are ‘Regular’, the next four maps come at level 15 in Tier 3 and they are considered ‘Hard’, whilst at level 25 you unlock Tier 4’s Insane maps. We think that it would be great if you could choose which difficulty you played a map at, one example of this is Underground – this maps’s layout is great for survival, but it’s too easy, obviously higher waves get harder, but we’d much rather start off at a harder difficulty.

Another minor change which could make a huge difference is the player count, currently survival mode can be played with either 1 or 2 players, however in zombies there was room for up to 4. We think that bumping MW3 survival mode up to 4 players (max) would be great, in fact even 3 would be an improvement, it would make things easier, but undoubtedly allow you to reach higher waves than ever before and allow you to apply new tactics.

There’s plenty to purchase when battling your way through a game of survival, but could things improve? There’s always room for improvement in our opinion and here’s some ideas we’ve had. Firstly it would be nice if you could add proficiencies to your guns just like you can use in multiplayer, also why not add some more attachments? Examples include the heartbeat sensor, thermal scope and hybrid scope – what do you think?

Currently there are no options in terms of melee attacks except the standard knife, but why not add better weaponry like there was in zombies? The Bowie Knife and Sickle were great, but seem too old-fashioned to suit survival mode. We have been racking our brains trying to think about more up-to-date replacements, but can’t think of any, therefore feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

One gripe I have with survival mode is with the squads which you can deploy, the Delta Squad and Riot Shield Squad can come in handy, but they tend to get in the way far too often. We think that there should be a way to choose the area where these squads should hold down, perhaps when you call in the squad you could point to a certain area on a map and that’s where they’d stay until they get killed off.

Whilst we researched information for this article we saw lots of comments suggesting that the Air Support Armoury should feature offerings which are available as killstreak rewards in multiplayer, we disagree as it would be too easy to take hundreds of enemies out with things like the PaveLow, this also applies to calling in dogs – both ideas are rubbish in our opinion. One thing which would be welcomed by us is a more expensive sentry gun which doesn’t overheat quickly – perhaps you could independently buy upgrades for your deployed turrets – what do you think? Finally wouldn’t it be nice if you could throw decoys to confuse the enemy, especially Juggernauts!

As you can see we have lots of ideas and all of them are pretty sensible in our opinion, but before we leave you we have some other ideas which didn’t quite make the cut, we pondered about adding wonder weapons which randomly show up on the map, but we thought it would somewhat negate the ‘realistic’ feel of survival mode, we also thought about easter eggs, but you don’t get enough time between round (there’s no crawlers don’t forget)- one thing we want no-matter what is more achievements and trophies which reward hardcore survival mode gamers – agreed?

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Bring back bouncing betty to survival for enemies and us…, sniper squads, and RPG squads enemies/friendlies. Also get the reaper to shoot by marking as much missiles at a time. Then take the strafe run and assault drone to the game with osprey gunner, stealth bomber, pavelow and it’ll be awesome.

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7 years ago

Mike

3 more ideas: Bring back the old jump and land from black ops, try to add new speed run aim which means like juggernauts when they are shooting and running at the same time but you only walk and shoot (maybe for multiplayer) and a smoke grenade.

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7 years ago

Mike

Body armor extra armor about 1500 or more xp to make yourself powerful and ready to go.

Finally they should make the game with these things included on my comments not too hard but right for us fairly, even though there are hard maps.

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7 years ago

Mike

Sorry : maps that are impossible harder than insane.

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7 years ago

Mike

Renaming: SAM turrets regular and the A-10 thunderbolt should be included with the reaper in it for new maps called veteran.

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7 years ago

Mike

Mike:Call in only five delta and riotshields squad and juggernauts at it would be fantastic so your own juggs with a decent cost to buy them and only can buy them 1 time if you buy all of them. (Mike Jr.): hey people, just an added idea that u should really bring back the guns from mw2and1 ( favorite and best weapons, LMG’S m240 or m249, assaults tar 21, Scar H, and etc..

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7 years ago

Mike

P.S: Bring back old maps such as those examples on this page and extra new worldwide maps like China ,Japan ,Poland, etc.. with day and night and weather too. Also more perks you can keep and your teammate ; the share can be 1000 bucks for a secondary share and tanks to battle or miniguns that you can have unlimited or up to you limited. The juggernauts can be harder after wave 50 with their own weapons that you can steal and basically enemy air support like AC-130 and predator attackers with multiples of these in larger maps as well… Read more »

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7 years ago

Mike

I can say that Infinity ward should put lots of new maps probably 16 more in total for the next 8 months or more in good graphics and get a hardened jugg suit. Then attack dogs of course, calling your own helicopter and airstrikes, SAM plane turret and more players so people can get their experience in survival offline or online like 4 players split screen and 25 players with teams name like seals, delta force etc…

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7 years ago

JD2020

im ready for some new maps to come out

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7 years ago

JD2020

i think u should be able to call in a attack dogs that follow u around that protect u while u r upgrading a weapon your something

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7 years ago

Redd2112

I think you should be able to have more than one missle or marker at one time that would help a lot on the survivor mode, and the call in guys you should be able to put them somewhere and them stay there because they do get in the way all the time.

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7 years ago

MR B0WJANGLEZ

I personally think whatever they add to suvival mode, whether it would be guns, killstreaks, perks, WAFFLE WEAPONS, would be an amazing upgrade. The level cap to me could be changed, or maybe even the ability to prestige ONLY to upgrade your character Via damage multiplier, health multiplier, ammo etc. Im totally sucked into survival, having said all that i want MORE!!

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7 years ago

Tango Delta

What a bunch of babies…”I think it would beÂ better with 3 or 4 players” or “I think that they should make it more like zombies”….piss on zombies, if you don’t like spec ops the way it is then take your a$$ back to cod black ops and play zombies.

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7 years ago

Glaciusx25

Please explain why you would want a heartbeat sensor when there is a constant spy plane which reveals ALL enemies anyway?

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7 years ago

Wagnerj21

how about camo for your gun or maybe even vehicles idk but the game needs something me and al my friends agree hat its just missing something that makes it so you want to play it over and over. suggestions: more than 2 players easter eggs reviving before self revive saves self revive more weaons being able to give ammo during combat adding the rest of the launchers,tactical,and lethals unlimited time in between rounds a small story type goal that unlocks a mega weapon there is players who love the whole survival idea but it just doesnt have what it… Read more »

I love the idea, maybe make ever 10 rounds have a unlimited timer untill the next round and when everyone is ready they have to ready up. that way you can buy everything you need.

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7 years ago

Josh

they need to bring out a sniper lobby in the community playlist + bring back all the great trickshotting maps like highrise and terminal!

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7 years ago

David

I think being able to buy upgrades to the weapons would be great such as an increase in Squad members (Obviously the number is changed in the event that an increase in players occurs and sentries like increase in ammo clips (I notice they have a “Reloading” phase where they stop shooting) Faster reloads, shooting, faster aiming, stronger bullets, further range of shooting (Maybe a shotgun turret in tight corners) wider range of shooting and maybe anÂ unnoticeable turret that enemies have to get closer to spot. Having helicopter support would make the game to easyÂ

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7 years ago

Masonhashemi

I have not played this game with even two players yet. I enjoy it with just one player. It’s more intense and helps you rank up quicker. It’s much better than creepy zombie mode from black ops. It’s nice they made it co-op but I think it’s better and more challenging to play with 1 or 2 players. Earn more xp too. The spec ops are more excellente

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7 years ago

Urban Oneshot

Its an absoloute discrace that its only 2 player. They’re supposed to be moving forward, I was expacting something like 5 or 6! They made the same stupid mistake in MW2 so naturally they’d fix it but of course they wouldn’t. I don’t care that they didn’t have time, this should have been their main priority. What Robert Bowling said was bullshit “We feel its much more tactical with 2 players as 1 can’t be carried by the abilities of the other player”. This isn’t even true, I’ve played plenty of games where the other player has hardly ever played… Read more »

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7 years ago

newworldorgone

The 4 players is less an idea and more common sense, at first I was angry that I couldn’t find a 3rd and 4th, then I realized that it was only 2 people, I’ve barely played since. 4 sentry guns, 4 squads, 4 predator missiles, 40 claymores and C4, and at least 1 RPG. In 2 player, it makes sense that when 1 person dies, the game ends, but with 4 players, the person could just respawn the next round with just the pistol, just like in Zombies. You should also be able to get 3 or 4 perks instead… Read more »

I think having 4 players is a brillant idea and i would love it to be Included in survival mode because online some of my mates get Left out and yes it would make the game easier But it will make The game so much more fun to play and to injoy

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7 years ago

Pvt_Forest_Gump

I think a remote sentry would be cool, make it like timed so you can’t just stay on it forever. Decoy gernades would be nice, it could give you a few more seconds of breather room to go and get stuff or regroup to a new location. the assault drone would be cool, I like the turrent upgrade idea like increased shoot time before over heating, longer distence lock on, increased bullet damage quicker lock on speed. I know this might sound kind of outragious but mabe a moab that justÂ kills all the enimiesÂ like in zombies the nuke icon, make… Read more »